An Intelligent Video Surveillance System

This paper presents an intelligent video surveillance system. The system is composed of one or more nodes flexibly according to the application scenarios such as private properties, banks and museums. Each node is an autonomous vision-based device capable to perform intelligent tasks. It is able to digitize and compress the acquired analog video signals in MPEG-4 standard and then transmit the compressed video stream to the control center. At the same time, the node makes use of a statistical approach for real-time detecting moving object and online alarm generation to enable a single human operator to monitor activities over a complex area using a distributed network of active video sensors. The node is implemented on a platform with high performance to ensure that the algorithm is able to run in real-time. Applications demonstrate that the intelligent system has an excellent performance in many scenarios to help people make decisions more accurately and rapidly.